Interface Race

by Michael Hollister


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 22/12/2009

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 300
ISBN : 9781449053895
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 300
ISBN : 9781449053888

About the Book

Mark Olmstead is a young pest control exterminator whose company, Eco PC, becomes politically incorrect in the ultra green yet polluted city of Portland, where he is besieged by animal rights protesters, including the Militant Insect Alliance, who spank him with fly swatters. He moves back to rural eastern Oregon and commutes, only to find that his hometown Morehead Gap is now mostly owned by his new landlord, Wes Titus, a politically correct developer from Portland. The town church has decayed, is infested by vermin and occupied by Waldo Ralph, an old hippie who has reconsecrated the structure as the ecocentric Church of Highs, a refuge for wildlife where he grows medical marijuana in the basement. While trying to make enough money to buy a house, Mark courts a former classmate, Sally Chan, who is half Chinese, and takes a side job as an illegal marijuana distributor, involving him with violent hippies, a black drug gang, Islamic terrorists, political assassins, the FBI and a cabal of computer hackers playing God in real life through an Internet video game called Oz and the Flying Monkeys. Mark is targeted for deletion by the Monkeys when he turns informer and he suspects that one of the Monkeys is Yakov Tete, a radical professor visiting his neighbor Diana Hartfield, a book editor vacationing from New York.


About the Author

Michael Hollister graduated from the University of Oregon and taught fiction writing at Stanford while earning a Ph.D. He served in the U.S. Army and has worked as a sketch artist, intelligence agent and professor of American literature. The father of three children, he now lives with his wife Judy in Brookings, Oregon. He has published the trilogy of historical novels Holywood, Follywood, Hollyworld, the historical epic Salishan and over thirty stories and articles in periodicals including Berkeley Fiction Review, Mississippi Review, Wisconsin Review, Hawaii Review, Aethlon, Paris Transcontinental (France), The Abiko Annual with James Joyce (Japan), Mosaic: The Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Canada), Studies in the Novel and Studies in Short Fiction. See www.michaelhollister.com. Coming in late 20l0 at AmerLit.com: American Literature Archive, including analyses of classics throughout the canon, reviews of film adaptations and of contemporary fiction.